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- We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the…
- Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God…
- We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we…
- The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
- God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
- Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is…
- God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's…
- We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The…
- It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of…
- God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ,…
- God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that…
- To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And…
- We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted…
- The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is,
- A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image,…
- The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
- God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
- Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is…
- Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in…
- There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend,…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong